Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,584,585 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,348,948). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What The Homeless Alliance Inc does
Mission
To open doors to hope, housing, and stability for our neighbors experiencing homelessness in central oklahoma through housing programs, supportive employment, day shelter, emergency winter shelter, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - homelessness is a complex issue with many causes, but the first and foremost solution is affordable housing. The homeless alliance provides financial assistance and wraparound case management to homeless families with children, homeless veterans, chronically homeless individuals, people fleeing domestic violence, people exiting from the criminal justice system, homeless youth, and people with a positive hiv diagnosis. During 2025, the homeless alliance provided 1582 individuals with housing support such as rental and deposit assistance, utility assistance, and case management. The homeless alliance owns and operates the westtown apartments, which has 20 single-room occupancy units, and two duplex homes. The homeless alliance also has a street outreach team which is focused on connecting unsheltered individuals with housing.
$4,772,766 spentof which $4,294,102 as grants$249,838 earned by the program36% of program spendingSupportive employment - the homeless alliance provides employment training to individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness through four social enterprises. The curbside chronicle provides both a voice and low-barrier employment opportunities through the distribution of our award-winning monthly magazine. Curbside flowers is a full-service flower shop and curbside apparel is a screen-printing business; these two social enterprises provide more structured work opportunities for experienced curbside chronicle vendors. Finally, sasquatch shaved ice employs youth who are at-risk of homelessness due to generational poverty and involvement with the foster care and/or juvenile justice systems at local snow cone stands and a mobile unit. In 2025, curbside enterprises provided employment and income opportunities to 496 unduplicated people, generated 79,222 hours of paid work, and put $1,114,691 directly into the pockets of people working to overcome homelessness and poverty.
$3,735,235 spentof which $880,504 as grants$2,190,267 earned by the program28% of program spendingCollaboration - the homeless alliance facilitates collaboration among the 100+ government, faith-based and nonprofit agencies serving the homeless in oklahoma city. This function is critical because individuals and families experiencing homelessness generally have multiple barriers to sustained housing and no single agency is able to address all barriers. For example, they may be struggling with physical disability or illness, mental illness, addiction, domestic violence, lack of employment and education, developmental disability, generational poverty, and/or a criminal record. The homeless alliance operates the westtown homeless resource campus where professional staff (including physicians, lawyers, social workers, case managers, and employment specialists) from different agencies come together to address the unique barriers to sustained housing for each client.
$2,241,012 spentof which $1,947,290 as grants17% of program spendingDay shelter - in addition to providing safe respite, the homeless alliances low-barrier day shelter serves as the front door to accessing services for the homeless in oklahoma city. In 2025, the day shelter served 139,407 meals and provided 23,502 showers to 8,698 unduplicated guests. Guests can access mail services, hygiene items, a kennel and pet food for companion animals, barber services, and a host of therapeutic and educational group meetings. The day shelter provides a safe space where staff from the homeless alliance and other local agencies can engage with guests including crisis counseling, veteran services, civil legal assistance, state benefits (tanf, snap, etc.), and primary and mental health care.
$1,801,366 spentof which $614,565 as grants13% of program spendingWinter shelter - in november 2024, the homeless alliance opened oklahoma citys first permanent winter shelter. It is open nightly from november 1 through march 31 and has beds for up to 300 adults and their pets. This shelter saves lives during the coldest months while connecting individuals with health care, housing, and other services. This was our second winter open and we served 3,307 unique guests.
$878,524 spentof which $63,634 as grants7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,428,903.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.8M to $12M (+54%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% · 2024 40% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Meghan Mueller
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $108k → $7.3M.
15 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 23% · 2021 30% · 2022 42% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC?
- THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,584,585 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,348,948). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $21,584,585 in grants to THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,348,948 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 76 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing